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Raymond Carver

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Raymond Carver 1938-1988

Raymond Carver came from the hardscrabble world of the down-and-out blue-collar characters in his stories. "I'm a paid-in-full member of the working poor," he said in one of two interviews with The New York Times last spring. "I have a great deal of sympathy with them. They're my people."

Mr. Carver published 10 books of prose and poetry in a career shadowed by alcoholism, poverty, a broken marriage and cancer.

In 1988 he collected what he considered the best of his stories in the book "Where I'm Calling From." The novelist and critic Marilynne Robinson, reviewing it in The New York Times Book Review, said he "stands squarely in the line of descent of American realism" and "should be famous for the conceptual beauty of his best stories." --From the obituary by Stewart Kellerman, Aug. 3, 1988